e0y2e3 wrote:Somebody point the TV Forum nerd and the Minor League Baseball toadstool to the official rip on The Heat thread.

:supergaydancingbananaemoticon:

I expected more from our varsity lettermen but any casual lurkers (both of 'em these days) will likely be just as lazy and narrowly-focused so we'll leave it up. Plus I like seeing it on the forum list.

Police allege that the altercation began after James confronted the valet, Sorel Rockfeller, and asked “Where are my fucking keys?” James continued “yelling profanities” at the valet, who explained that he had given the keys to the valet cashier because, though James’s car had been ready for 30 minutes, she stood talking with friends as the vehicle sat running on the valet ramp.

Then, “for no apparent reason,” James allegedly “struck the victim with an open hand across the right side of his face.” In the process, James lost her balance and fell to the ground.

When a cop later asked James for ID, she refused. James, who was sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle, then “began to yell at the other female who was the driver, ‘Don’t give him anything. Don’t give him my purse.'” James, the officer noted, “had bloodshot eyes and a strong odor of alcohol on her breath.”

While at the police station, two other cops tried to speak with James, who remained “very uncooperative” and said, “I’m trying to trust you but I don’t trust your kind. I don’t trust that officer who arrested me.”

It is unclear what “kind” James does not reportedly trust.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves-----Abe Lincoln

Let me tell you, if any of you douchebag empty headed stuffed suit nanny politicians tries to fuck with my bacon, I’m going after you like a crazed chimpanzee on bath salts. -----Lars

She just needs to stay in Akron and berate the employees at The Olive Garden in Fairlawn so all is right with the world again.

So when do Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton fly down to Souf Beach to start a rally after reading this?

After Gloria was transported to a nearby police station, the report continues, a shift commander -- Lt. Acosta -- tried to speak with James who responded, "I'm trying to trust you but I don't trust your kind ... I don't trust that officer who arrested me."

Gloria then told police she "was not going to cooperate because she did nothing wrong."

At least we know where LBJ got his receding hairline from

Galley Boys are slop on top of a so-so burger and a bun you coulde get from a Covneninet food mart generic pack. They the Antoine Joubert of burgers; soft, sloppy, oozing grease and cheap sauce and extremely overrated by a biased fan base. Proof that if you throw enough cheap sauce shit on a burger you still can't overcome the lame burger. -JB

Police allege that the altercation began after James confronted the valet, Sorel Rockfeller, and asked “Where are my fucking keys?” James continued “yelling profanities” at the valet, who explained that he had given the keys to the valet cashier because, though James’s car had been ready for 30 minutes, she stood talking with friends as the vehicle sat running on the valet ramp.

Then, “for no apparent reason,” James allegedly “struck the victim with an open hand across the right side of his face.” In the process, James lost her balance and fell to the ground.

When a cop later asked James for ID, she refused. James, who was sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle, then “began to yell at the other female who was the driver, ‘Don’t give him anything. Don’t give him my purse.'” James, the officer noted, “had bloodshot eyes and a strong odor of alcohol on her breath.”

While at the police station, two other cops tried to speak with James, who remained “very uncooperative” and said, “I’m trying to trust you but I don’t trust your kind. I don’t trust that officer who arrested me.”

Don't you have some wood league baseball game between Stanton and Erie to watch Al?

And you are right JB. Gilbert took a young and cocky guy that somehow avoided the criminal side and gave him nothing but a blank check and blow jobs. He helped turn him into the entiteled prick he is today and should be massively proud of that achievment. Hope he enjoyed the barb wire covered baseball bat LBJ impaled him with as a reward this summer.

e0y2e3 wrote:Don't you have some wood league baseball game between Stanton and Erie to watch Al?

And you are right JB. Gilbert took a young and cocky guy that somehow avoided the criminal side and gave him nothing but a blank check and blow jobs. He helped turn him into the entiteled prick he is today and should be massively proud of that achievment. Hope he enjoyed the barb wire covered baseball bat LBJ impaled him with as a reward this summer.

Stop falling all over yourself with this take. Guy driving toy Hummer around the court is just young and cocky? Somehow stayed out of jail? LBJ is LBJ, wannabe billionaire businessman, Global Icon, King James. Excuse me if the, Gilbert as a major ingredient to his licentiousness take, causes me to have serious gastrointestinal discomfort.

"When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience."

Orenthal wrote:Stop falling all over yourself with this take. Guy driving toy Hummer around the court is just young and cocky? Somehow stayed out of jail? LBJ is LBJ, wannabe billionaire businessman, Global Icon, King James. Excuse me if the, Gilbert as a major ingredient to his licentiousness take, causes me to have serious gastrointestinal discomfort.

^This

The kid has had his sense of entitlement since his junior yr at SVSM. Between all the NBA players coming out to his games when n town, to Gloria tanting the other parents w/ her sons Wheaties box, the kid has been on a candonowrong path for the last decade plus. The whole H2 incident and the throwback jersey incidents showed this as well as he just laughed it off. The entitlement isn't James alone, it extended to his LRMR buddies the moment he was drafted. Just ask the staff at Jacobs Field when the invited the James gang to the game the day after the draft.

Gilbert didn't instill all this onto James but he helped make it much worse. It was already out of control.

Galley Boys are slop on top of a so-so burger and a bun you coulde get from a Covneninet food mart generic pack. They the Antoine Joubert of burgers; soft, sloppy, oozing grease and cheap sauce and extremely overrated by a biased fan base. Proof that if you throw enough cheap sauce shit on a burger you still can't overcome the lame burger. -JB

One part that always gets overlooked is that pre-decision nearly every voice in the game and media talked about how mature James was for a professional athlete. So not only was he given a pass that NEARLY EVERY GREAT athlete is given, but at the same time he was receiving tremendous amounts of positive reenforcement.

FD: Freaking as guilty as anyone. Though my voice only carries about 3 houses down the street, and about 2 people may pay attention to my takes on the WWW.

"When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience."

FWIW: I know damn well TMLP didn't invent LBJ's self obsession. That said when your boss hires all of your best friends and gives you blow jobs under the table while you are 19 it will magnify that problem A-LOT.

e0y2e3 wrote:FWIW: I know damn well TMLP didn't invent LBJ's self obsession. That said when your boss hires all of your best friends and gives you blow jobs under the table while you are 19 it will magnify that problem A-LOT.

TMLP didn't plant the seed, but he sure as hell watered it and threw a shit load of fertilizer on it.

I won't debate he did nothing to slow or stop James self absorbtion, until convenient. I just see his behavior as more normal, and hindsight calls for him to punish his star athlete as, well, hindsight.

"When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience."

FWIW: I want you to tell me what was normal about what Gilbert did for LBJ. How many NBA players get to staff the stadium? Get to use the owners private jet to fly to games instead of with the team? Give your "advisor/NBA shadow man" end of bench courtside tickets? Etc....

I only disagree as to the degree to which Gilbert created James. The level of entitlement of pro athletes is a given, I'm not gonna go around comparing who got more or the specific items.

James was an egotistical maniac before Gilbert, and is still one after Gilbert. In fact he has probably said and done more stupid things since being, "disciplined", by the fans and a more rational owner, but thats all because Gilbert covered it up right...

"When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience."